Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982, where she received her Ph.D. in German literature. She received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for The Bridegroom Was a Dog. She writes in both German and Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, a German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to German culture. She also received the Goethe-Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany and the prestigious Kleist Prize (2016).

E-Mail-Address: tawadaoo@yahoo.co.jp

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Writer-in-Residence in USA

1. Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades Oct.-Nov 1996

2. M.I.T. Boston Feb.-May 1999

3. University of Kentucky April 2004

4. Deutsches Haus of New York University Nov.-Dec. 2004

5. Washington University in St.Louis March-April 2008

6. Stanford University Feb.2009

7. Cornell University April 2009

8. DAAD Distinguished Chair in Contemporary Poetics in NYU’s Department of German 2015